Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose

by Brian Vickers

Book Overview

The full study of Bacon as a writer, Dr Vickers takes into account the whole corpus of Bacon's work, in Latin as well as in English. His chief sources are the The Advancement of Learning and the Essays. His purpose is to reinstate Bacon as one of the supreme masters of English prose in a period which made rich use of all the expressive resources of the medium. The study is both analytical and historical: it isolates the major features of Bacon's style,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521114969
• ISBN13: 9780521114967
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"